Brinda Kumar on Gerhard Richter | New York Studio School

Evening Lecture Series Fall 2020 Season: Brinda Kumar "On Gerhard Richter: Painting After All," recorded on October 21, 2020. Brinda Kumar is an Assistant Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She completed her BFA in painting and printmaking from the College of Art, New Delhi; MA at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and received an MA and Ph.D. from Cornell University. She joined The Met in 2015, and worked on several exhibitions at The Met Breuer including Nasreen Mohamedi (2016), Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible (2016), Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body, 1300-Now (2018) and Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context (2019). Earlier this year she was co-curator of the exhibition Gerhard Richter: Painting After All at The Met Breuer, which was scheduled to be on view from March 4 – July 5, 2020, but had to close prematurely due to the COVID-19 crisis. Most recently she co-curated the installation of Gerhard Richter: The Birkenau Paintings in the Robert Lehman Wing at The Met. Please consider making a gift to the Evening Lecture Series. Your donation will support the Series ongoing twice-weekly discussions of contemporary art and art history, which are free and open to all. https://nyss.org/support/donate/ The NYSS Evening Lecture Series is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and also by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. This online archive is funded in part by the Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation, and additional support is generously provided by the Robert Lehman Foundation and many individual contributors. NYSS is deeply grateful for the support of its programs. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.